Arleea

Amaya

January 8, 2016 at 4:34 pm

Thanks a lot =). Somehow I have more and more questions after I read a new chapter. So Hikari has Kotoris spirit, but not her soul? So does her soul has something to do with the Akashi record?
Hmm … I think I will re-read everything from the beginning, maybe I that will help.
But I really like this series 😀

Arleea

January 9, 2016 at 2:20 am

As far as I’m guessing is that Kotori died and reincarnated as that sick girl in the hospital. Hikari being that girls clone only has her essence since she’s not really human. The sick girl survived because Hikari killed herself so the original could have her organs.

Mimi

That makes does make sense! I can’t wait to find out x) Gotta love mangas with mysteries, alltough it’s kinda sad if he only likes her for having Kotoris essence 🙁

Arleea

January 9, 2016 at 5:47 pm

In a way he’ saying her loves her because it’s her. For what is gathered she acts the same as Kotori. Even her older twin sister imagined Hikari as Kotori because they act so alike. If you think about what makes you is you or your soul if you believe in souls. Your body does not define who you are.

As Ryouma said to Kotoha, her body may look and feel the same as Kotori but they’re not the same because of their soul or personality if that makes it easier to understand. But Hikari has Kotori’s essence/personality or what made Kotori, Kotori. It’s slightly complex but yet bitter sweet.

thestripedone

January 10, 2016 at 7:47 am

Part of the confusion here with souls/spirits/essences is a translation thing.

The word Ryouma uses in Japanese is “Kotori no sonzai,” which is literally “her existence.”

As for souls and spirits, I tend to use those interchangeably to make “tamashii” (which sort of means both or either?) sound sensible in English.

My interpretation of all this is that Hikari is quite literally a part of Kotori’s being, split off from the sick girl (whose name I always forget) when she was cloned, and given corporeal form in Hades after she killed herself by Ryouma.